hal-disable-polling causes buffer overflow

Bug #804428 reported by Chad A Davis
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
laptop-mode-tools (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Release of Ubuntu: 11.04 (updated 2011-07-01)
Package Version: 1.57-1ubuntu1
Expected Results: install the package and run installation hooks without buffer overflow
Actual Results: installation hooks run hal-disable-polling which causes a buffer overflow

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: laptop-mode-tools (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 6f249a50c1e217a3ec970ec24886f8a8
CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
Date: Fri Jul 1 18:53:52 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110402)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: laptop-mode-tools
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-08 (22 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Chad A Davis (chadadavis) wrote :
Changed in laptop-mode-tools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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